This site is an expanded and significantly upgraded version of the Flickr Commons based tool I wrote several years ago. As well as a major design/UX overhaul, it now includes data from further providers such as those available through Europeana, and also the Imperial War Museum. I'd welcome further suggestions as the harvesting tool and database are easily extendable.
For information, questions and bug reports please contact James Morley @jamesinealing | james@jamesmorley.net
The data has been harvested from providers using some custom php scripts to query respective APIs based on dates. Data is harmonised and stored in a local mySql database.
Additional jQuery plugins are used to enhance the display, including Masonry and Bootstrap Image Gallery (based on blueimp).
The code is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please. It will be shared on Github shortly!
. A pair of iron firedogs decorated with lion's heads and coats of arms, with fan shaped finials.
National Maritime Museum
Carolus Dei Gratia Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae et Hibernia. Rex. Text in Latin below image.
Portrait of King Charles I by Silkman after a portrait by Anthony Van Dyck.
1649
National Maritime Museum
Carolus II. D.G. Magnae Brittaniae, Franciae et Hiberniae Rex, etc. Natus Ao 1630 Hanc Maiestatis suae Effigiem ab Antonio van Dycke Equite sic depictam, Humillimus Cliens Wenceslaus Hollar Boh: Aqua forti aeri insculpsit Dedicavit Consecravtque Anno 1649
1649
National Maritime Museum
Portrait of a naval officer, 1649. A portrait of a young officer in the Parliamentary Navy dating from about 1649. He is shown half-length to right in a black silk doublet with a small white collar and a slashed sleeve. His right gloved hand points toward
1649
National Maritime Museum
Richard Deane, 1610-53, General-at-Sea. Oval miniature in watercolour in an oval glazed gilt metal frame, with a scratched inscription on the reverse 'Admiral Dean 1649'. There is also a larger oval lacquered and moulded wooden frame (detached,
inscribed 1649
National Maritime Museum